Re: Clipboard configuration

[Sam Edge <sam dot edgeZZZ at lineone dot net>]

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in
<3FFD8C8B.4080408@msu.edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:59:55 -0500:

> [Sam Edge wrote:]
> > Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent
> > the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X
> > server. This results in the client wasting its time doing it's
> > start-up retries. This isn't a huge waste - more a niggle.
> 
> Really... huh... I guess that's why I call GenerateAuthorization within 
> the server to create an MIT MAGIC COOKIE, then I call XSetAuthorization 
> in the clipboard thread to pass that cookie to the server when using 
> Xdmcp?  :)  


Bugger. For some reason I was running an older version of Xwin.exe
when I checked. Sorry.

> You must not have been reading the change logs too closely :)

You've found me out! ;-)

Anyway. As you were, gang. (And thanks again for a thoughoughly
excellent piece of software.)

Regards,
-- 
Sam Edge